Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that miscarriages are systematically (a) counted and (b) reported.

Following the publication of the Pregnancy Loss Review in July 2023, NHS England are currently exploring the potential for mid-trimester (12-24 weeks) loss data to be collected using the Maternity Services Data Set collection, which will be reviewed early next year as part of the plan to update the Digital Maternity Record Standard.